Compressing a folder in c# ?? 
December 30th, 2008, 07:51 AM
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Hello All,
I am trying to compress a folder with different kinds of files and sub-folder programmatically. Googleing all the c# forums and news groups
(almost for half a day ) lead me to ICSharpCode SharpZipLib project. But I dont want to use this and I am trying to find out any other way to do this. Can anyone shed some light on this. I thought it must be easy to compress a folder in c#. Thank you.
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December 30th, 2008, 08:46 AM
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Thanks SvenV. Can you give me some example for compressing a folder.
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December 30th, 2008, 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Eternal  Thanks SvenV. Can you give me some example for compressing a folder. | Did you follow the links that SvenV provided? There is sample code there for compressing files including a link to a full blown application sample, also with source code that is capable of compressing multiple files.
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December 30th, 2008, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Eternal Hello All,
I am trying to compress a folder with different kinds of files and sub-folder programmatically. Googleing all the c# forums and news groups
(almost for half a day ) lead me to ICSharpCode SharpZipLib project. But I dont want to use this and I am trying to find out any other way to do this. Can anyone shed some light on this. I thought it must be easy to compress a folder in c#. Thank you. | You could also use WMI to do so... Win32_Directory class
System.Management. -
string filePath = @"C:\Zp1\Zp";
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try
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{
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ManagementObject dir =
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new ManagementObject("root\\CIMV2", "Win32_Directory.Name='"+filePath+"'", null);
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ManagementBaseObject op = dir.InvokeMethod("Compress", null, null);
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Console.WriteLine(op["ReturnValue"].Tostring);
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//0 for success
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December 31st, 2008, 07:21 AM
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There is a good open-source library which offers better compression compared to System.IO.Compression classes: .NET Zip Library #ziplib (SharpZipLib)
There are several compression types (Zip, GZip, BZip2, Tar), with adjustable compression settings.
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December 31st, 2008, 12:18 PM
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Thank you all for the help.
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